Getting Ready for the Bay Area Book Festival!

No, I won't be able to be at the Bay Area Book Festival myself this year, but my books will be! My current writing group, the Thoth Collective, meets monthly via Zoom and as two of the authors live in the Bay Area, they have generously taken on the task of getting us a table at the festival.

In this photo you can see that Dirk van Nouhuys is in the process of organizing our books and flyers to take to the festival, and if you look very closely, you'll see (over to the right) an advance reader copy of In Search of the Magic Theater sitting on top of a copy of Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic. Visitors to the festival can look through both books and take away flyers about them with info on how to order.

In the cardboard box are copies of Jan Alexander's Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization, which will be available for sale on the spot. Books by members that will be for sale in more limited quantities are Rabble and A Gift for the Sultan, both by Geoffrey Fox; and The Great Pool Jump, by Peter de Lissevoy. I anticipate that there will be unlimited copies of books by Margaret C. Murray as she is the other Bay Area member and can bring as many copies as she is willing to carry.

And so, if you are in the Berkeley area May 7-8, by all means head over to downtown, where the Festival will include many authors, publishers, writers' groups, and events, and make sure to look for the Thoth table where Dirk and Margaret will be showing off all of our books.